Love
“No one should
separate a couple God has joined together.”
Mark 10:9
Mark 10:9
Very recently I have watched a
video on YouTube where kids reacted to gay marriages. After showing the kids a
bunch of clips and videos of gay people getting married, they asked them why
people get married in the first place. At first the children were very sure of
their answers. Most of the children answered that they married each other
because they love each other. But then they were asked what the difference
between being girlfriend and boyfriend and marrying was. Now this caught them
off guard. Note: all of the children in this video are from the U.S. Divorce is
legal in the U.S.
They then began to doubt if
marriage is really important if you can break it off anyway by divorce. One of
them even said, “what’s the point of marrying then?”
This struck a nerve. This simple
question hurt me. What is the point of marrying if its promises could be broken
easily by divorce? What is the point of making this covenant if you can easily back-out? What is the point of marriages
if couples can still break off from their relationships; break off families?
What is the point?
“No one should separate a couple
God has joined together.”
This message is loud and clear yet
plain and simple. If you read the rest of the verses that surrounds this
passage in the Bible, you’ll see that Jesus clearly explained to His disciples
that a marriage is joining two souls together as one. One. Two people together;
a team. What happened?
Well, divorce happened. Well, not
only that actually, some people just leave their spouses behind. And this is
not rare. I have friends who have been abandoned by fathers and mothers. I see
how damaged and broken they are. They’re lost.
“No one should separate a couple
God has joined together.”
People have forgotten the sanctity
of marriage, they have forgotten what marriage should be. Marriage—more than a
ceremony or a union of two people—is a promise. It’s a promise that you will
stay side by side, with each other, through the worst, and through death. It’s
a promise that you live as one.
You cannot tear apart a heart and
expect it to beat as whole. Separation, divorce, or whatever you want to call
it, tears apart not only hearts but futures. It tears apart children. How will
they believe in love if the first ones who should have taught them how to love,
showed how to deprive them of love?
Everyone yearns for love. We people
are made for love. God created us that way so that we need each other, we help
each other, we become one.
But what is the point of becoming
“one” if you can easily cut that one
in half?
People are broken, I get it. But
what I truly don’t get about this world, is why people would still find ways to
twist something so beautiful and make it disturbingly horrific. Broken marriages
cause broken families. Broken families cause broken children. Broken children
become broken people.
It becomes a cycle. People break
people, they break promises, they break lives. This is because they are broken
themselves. And what is good in living in a broken world?
But you know, that’s the most
beautiful thing about love. Real love stays no matter how broken something is.
Real love is eternal, real love is strong and it is pure. It is stronger
especially when flaws are bigger and when fears are deadlier. Real love stays.
That’s what’s missing. Love.
Because why would you leave someone if you truly love them? Why would you leave
them just because you can?
“No one should separate a couple
God has joined together,” can also be read as;
“no one should separate a couple Love has joined together.”
God is love.
One time, I have asked God how He
could still love His people even when they get so cruel and heartless. He told
me “love them still.”
He’s accepting them for who they
are, or for what they are even now. He loves them even when He knows there’s a
chance they will never love Him back.
That’s love, you see. Love stays.
God stays.
I think we should all learn from
Him. I think we should all remember how to love.
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